Internal Energy
 

Internal Energy problem 20


An ideal gas has a volume of at a pressure of and a temperature of , as shown in the figure below.




The gas suddenly expands to a volume of . During the expansion, no thermal energy is transferred. The final pressure of the gas is at temperature , as shown in the figure above.


  • Show that the number of gas molecules is .


    • Show that the final temperature of the gas is .


    • The average translational kinetic energy of a molecule of an ideal gas is given by




      where is the thermodynamic temperature and is the Boltzmann constant. Calculate the increase in internal energy of the gas.


 

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